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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Some digital thoughts and speculations… can wait to try it. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
Yes, Peter, I know that in the Steinberg WaveLab use only Bob Katz’ metering system, still I thought that if they are cooperate then Katz’ Ambience Recovery might be available as a standalone plug-in. It is kind of suspiring that Mr. Katz was able t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #184: OK, it’s getting ugly by Romy the Cat on 2010-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]OK, I disconnected my MiniMe speakers and left only Macondo to care sound in the room. I was listing for the last week Macondo. There is no bass, just upperbass horn at the bottom and The Injection channel a full range....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Neutral or neutral/uncoloured? by tuga on 2008-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="nl"]I am interested that Romy has found some interest in But, if I wanted "neutral" I would use a gainclone-type amp. DHTs can be among the lowest-distortion amplification devices ever made. However, most DHT users like the funny additio...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: An excellent point…. here is my take…. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Other Ways of getting Special Tone from a loudspeaker. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  8 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]Maybe it is important to ask what the problem is that moving in this direction is addressing … [/quote] Yes, the 30 drivers approach will ruin anything else BUT… When you are a painter and you just did a wonderful portra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Think about it as active room treatment by Romy the Cat on 2023-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
Wow, where did you see a 1kW amplifier that is able to produce bass that does not make you vomit? Also, why would you need power like this. If you go with 15” high sensitivity driver, then you would need 20-30W max. Do not forget that your objecti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: 2+3 becomes 2+2 by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
James,  I never tried or heard about DML or BMR type drivers. I looked them up and a few things they do give me a cold shoulder.   It is not about a selection of driver type or the topology of front channels. I though initially that it was impo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: A new paradigm for ULF? by oxric on 2011-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The most important in audio is a state of realization and obtaining this state is a matter of time I am afraid. Let pretend that tomorrow I will build/buy some kind of speaker that would do the perfect ULF channel ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Well, it does sound cryptic. by Romy the Cat on 2007-07-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Compression drivers and the “clean signal”. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  14 Replies 
[quote user="Markus"]I usually manage to read you quite well, but this   Romy the Cat wrote: direct or indirect phase constructors. has me baffled. What do you mean, please?[/quote] When I wrote it I meant different ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: Small-blood Macondo 2016? by Romy the Cat on 2016-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
Last week I took the Vitavox drivers from the Midbass horns.  This week most likely I will take the compression chambers from the installed horns. If I even redo the midbass horns then to have the custom-fit compression chambers will be 30% of the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #129: Thinking about the forthcoming experiment. by Romy the Cat on 2016-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat? in Audio Discussions  283 Replies 
I have order 4cu feet sealed enclosure for two 15 drivers. It is relatively small box but I need to hit minus 6-8 dB at 50Hz. The collection of the drivers I have would be following: Vitavox AK51 and 15/40, Altec 416B and 515B. I like Vitavox tone...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Bravo, Stereophile: Advent loudspeakers by Romy the Cat on 2006-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bravo, Stereophile: Advent loudspeakers in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
No mater how ridicules the title of this article sounds on my site but I was quite glad to see the in the May’s issues of Stereophile the Robert J. Reina review of Advent loudspeakers. I do not think that Advent’s review is a sign of some kind of sin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold in D/A mode. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
In continuation to the "A new round of Pacific’s DAC listening" post.... I have a number of revisions of this little contest between two DACs in this thread and in other threads. In all of them the Lavry 924 has a little edge over Pacific Microso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #69: Some summary and conclusions from the first phase. by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I would like to overview the content of my thoughts on the subject. I feel that the first phase of my interest in single-stage Milq vs. DHT is over and I can make some observations.  The subject turned out to be more interesting and more changi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Perfect HF and the “kinky” Electro-Voice T350. by Romy the Cat on 2006-08-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Electro-Voice T350, T35, + Fostex tweeters. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  34 Replies 
I think I have too much time on my hands or use my time in highly stupid fashion but I decided to do today the experiment about witch I was thinking for a while. The experiment was “methodology clean” and lead me to quite interesting discoveries. Sin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Resonating hi from oversea by martinshorn on 2017-04-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Resonating hi from oversea in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Hi Romy, hi folksMy intro hello and first post, i just had to sign up. Just found the platform through googlin some hornstuff and came back too often.Especially the resonating oops was the latest topic that really cought my attention as im familar, a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #309: Traveling antimatter by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]May 16, 2010: My ultimate wet audio dream was to have Bruckner Room. But so far it turning out that I got another big B room. Since 3 days back I stopped the intellectual masturbation with my room my playback up for the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: About dymick sparkling. by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About dymick sparkling. in Playback Listening  0 Replies 
If you following the thread about my new listing room: http://www.romythecat.com/LatestPosts.aspx?ThreadID=13235 …then you know that my room is almost done and that now I am working on the fine details of the sound organization in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: I am still experimenting with myself. by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
[quote user="Bill"]No matter which approach you decide on of the six, there will always be an improvement over stereo. One does not need super high end speakers except possibly for the main channels. Matter of fact, all of my and Romy's surrounds ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: The way how I see it, perhaps mistakably. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"]Sometimes it is not so much as adding color, but taking it away.  Most cheap cone drivers will exhibit a loose sound,  so if you want to get the cellos more clearly, you need to get some meat off the bones or they wil get lost...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: It is not as unfortunate as you wish make it to look. by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: World's Finest Sounding Audio Room in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="Jordi"] I have not been able to respond to all your questions until now because I was infected by a trojan on this site several days ago.  It SUCKS having this happene because it takes radical hours of time to track this crapware do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Prerequisites. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
The whole notion of the de Charlus’ quest I find to be very interesting. Charlus feels that only use horn topology and compression drivers is able to deliver “superior” audio result, at least it was his experience. I do not feel that horn topolog...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: "Leave the gun, take the cannolis..." by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] First of all, I want to note that when somebody lives on the principle of denying everything, he risks to live in his own encapsulated world, build according to his own principles in order to feel comfortable there.   [/q...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: Behringer Virtualizer by Romy the Cat on 2021-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 2+3 surround sound?? in Playback Listening  82 Replies 
The last couple days I have experimented with Behringer Virtualizer 3D FX2000 High-Performance 3D Multi-Engine Effects Processor. It is pro machine, very non expensive that allows doing the same as Yamaha field processors can do. I was hoping to u...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: It might become not what I initially thought by Romy the Cat on 2008-10-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
[quote user="drdna"]I would not restrict myself to the idea that things need to be a certain way or a certain configuration of the drivers or ports based on theory alone. I think it is important to ask what is interesting about the sound that the new...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Yes, this is the distinction I was attempting to point to... by Edgar= on 2023-09-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang fo... in Audio For Dummies ™  46 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I never touch the main signal with my Reverberation Injection, and everything is happening only on a dedicated complementary acoustic system that acts as an injector.  [/quote] Yes,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
As a new concert season is coming up with BSO opening night next week I was sprucing up my recording studio. The machine is 3MHz with 2G memory – plenty run SoundLab5. The SoundLab just record and play, I do absolutely nothing else in this software, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The updated Bidat’s preliminary Sound by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
Though my new updated Bidat is too fresh but considering that I know very well how the Nichicon KZ progress with sound I think I can make some preliminary observations about the revised sound of my Bidat. The change was not a large, less than I expe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #172: Time-domains experiments are great! by Romy the Cat on 2017-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  184 Replies 
Josh, I am sorry, I missed from you original post the fact that you delay the back tweeters. It just looked and it is there, I just did not registered on me… Yes, the play with delayed channels is very cook thing. I did play with 10-30ms delay ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: The other side of the coin by haralanov on 2012-02-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: If you were to start from scratch, what horn system would yo... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  22 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not disagree with it but I would certainly question the practicality of it alone with cost/benefit ratio. I think if the identically amount of effort would be spend for other aspects then the benefits would be highe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Monday morning…. by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Basic guide to advanced audio in Playback Listening  62 Replies 
[quote user="haralanov"] Yes, you are right. Power – you have almost unlimited power. Dynamics – you have as much dynamics as you want. But there are a lot of associated problems with that kind of dynamics. The following illustration is taken by ...
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